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Colour Wheel Worksheet for Kids

Art and painting lesson 3: The colour wheel · Set 331 · 40 questions
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Artist's tip (Go round the circle): Order: red, red-orange, orange, yellow-orange, yellow, yellow-green, green, blue-green, blue, blue-purple, purple, red-purple. Primary: red, yellow, blue. Secondary: orange, green, purple. Tertiary: the six two-word colours. Neighbours on the wheel are called analogous colours; black, white, grey and brown are neutrals and are not on the wheel.

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  1. 1.Which of these is a secondary colour? (a) blue-green (b) yellow-orange (c) blue (d) purple
  2. 2.🎡 On the colour wheel, is purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  3. 3.True or false: red-purple is a tertiary colour. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-purple sits between blue and purple. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and orange? (a) red-orange (b) purple (c) orange (d) yellow-green
  6. 6.🎡 How many colours are there on a basic 12-part colour wheel?
  7. 7.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) primary colour (c) tertiary colour
  8. 8.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) blue-green (b) red (c) yellow-green (d) red-purple
  9. 9.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow and blue? (a) orange (b) purple (c) green (d) red
  10. 10.True or false: yellow is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-orange and yellow-orange? (a) blue (b) red-orange (c) purple (d) orange
  12. 12.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between purple and red? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) blue-purple (d) red-purple
  13. 13.🎡 On the colour wheel, is yellow-green a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) secondary colour (c) tertiary colour
  14. 14.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) red (b) blue (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  15. 15.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, purple sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🎡 On the colour wheel, is red-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) secondary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) primary colour
  17. 17.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-orange and yellow-green? (a) green (b) red-purple (c) yellow (d) red-orange
  18. 18.🎡 On a simple 6-part colour wheel, how many colours are there?
  19. 19.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) blue-green (c) blue (d) orange
  20. 20.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red-purple and red-orange? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) yellow-green (d) red
  21. 21.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between green and blue? (a) red-orange (b) blue-green (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  22. 22.True or false: on a 12-part colour wheel, blue-green sits between blue-purple and red-purple. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and purple? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) yellow (d) blue-purple
  24. 24.🎡 Colours that sit side by side on the colour wheel are called… (a) complementary colours (b) neutral colours (c) analogous colours (d) primary colours
  25. 25.Which of these is a tertiary colour? (a) green (b) purple (c) red-purple (d) yellow
  26. 26.🎡 A tertiary colour is made by mixing… (a) two primaries (b) two tertiaries (c) a primary + a secondary (d) black and white
  27. 27.🎡 Which of these is a neutral colour, not found on the colour wheel? (a) orange (b) red (c) blue-green (d) grey
  28. 28.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between red and yellow? (a) purple (b) blue (c) green (d) orange
  29. 29.True or false: purple is a secondary colour. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🎡 On a 6-part colour wheel, which colour sits between blue and red? (a) orange (b) purple (c) yellow (d) green
  31. 31.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between yellow-green and blue-green? (a) red-purple (b) green (c) blue-purple (d) blue
  32. 32.True or false: red is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: green is a tertiary colour. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔍 Which is the odd one out? (a) green (b) yellow-green (c) red-orange (d) yellow-orange
  35. 35.True or false: green is a secondary colour. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🎡 On the colour wheel, is orange a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) tertiary colour (b) primary colour (c) secondary colour
  37. 37.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-orange (b) orange (c) red-purple (d) blue
  38. 38.🎡 On the colour wheel, is blue-purple a primary, secondary or tertiary colour? (a) primary colour (b) tertiary colour (c) secondary colour
  39. 39.🎡 On a 12-part colour wheel, which colour sits between orange and yellow? (a) red (b) red-purple (c) yellow-orange (d) yellow
  40. 40.Which of these is a primary colour? (a) red-purple (b) blue-green (c) yellow-green (d) yellow

Answer key

  1. purple
  2. secondary colour
  3. True
  4. True
  5. red-orange
  6. 12
  7. primary colour
  8. red
  9. green
  10. False
  11. orange
  12. red-purple
  13. tertiary colour
  14. red-orange
  15. True
  16. tertiary colour
  17. yellow
  18. 6
  19. blue-green
  20. red
  21. blue-green
  22. False
  23. blue-purple
  24. analogous colours
  25. red-purple
  26. a primary + a secondary
  27. grey
  28. orange
  29. True
  30. purple
  31. green
  32. False
  33. False
  34. green
  35. True
  36. secondary colour
  37. blue
  38. tertiary colour
  39. yellow-orange
  40. yellow

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